so the rainbow effect you have not seen one rain bow as of yet, but isn,t it only a 4x speed because i would be using this pj just for dvd's and the player will be be the the panny xp30 and the throw is 12.5 feet and vewing didtance will be 10 to 11 ? would that work for me

well it really depends on you. Some people wont see them at that speed others will. Compared to a 2x wheel your odds are much better and usually if you do see them they are thiner. only way to find out is to test it.

This is not a rainbow prone machine. For my 92"wide screen I hv the PJ back 13.6', you will hv to use a little smaller screen. Use the min throw ratio times the foot distance you need to be back to get your maximum screen width. I think the next size down screen is 80"wide.

well this sounds like what guitarman was explaining but with the update that is available that should not be a problem .correct

This is a pretty good projector for the price. First, my setup is a 92" Firehawk Delux 16:9 screen at a 10' viewing distance. I only watch DVDs; no TV.

The picture quality is good with this projector, until you get to true red/blue/green. All of the mixed colors look great, but if any of the three (especially red & blue) are projected as the primary color, I am getting quite a bit of pixelation and color spray. For some reason it looks like red and blue are bleeding all over the other colors in a vertical line of pixels. This is really irritating on colorful DVDs such as Dune, Amelie, SW: AOTC, etc.

I have problems with the aspect ratio on this projector. Depending on the aspect ratio of the DVD, I can never get it set up correctly for all of my DVDs. There are 5 modes to choose from for the projector, but it still never works out for all DVDs. If I get one movie set up perfectly, the next will then be off the screen. I don't want to have to adjust the projector for every DVD I have. This was not a problem on the Demo unit I saw, so it is most likely a recent software change that caused the problem. Also, since it is a 4:3 native, I always have overspray above the screen. This may be obvious for most, but I wanted to put it in for those who may not know.

Other than those problems, the picture quality is good. The blacks are very inky, deep blacks. Depending on the viewer, there are very few to zero problems with rainbowing. The picture is very crisp, though it would be better if it were higher resolution.

Overall, it is a pretty good projector for $$$$. I personally cannot get over the problems I noted, so I will unfortunately be taking it back and upgrading.

I'll take guitarmans word that atoc looked stunning over the posting from PC anyday. Looking at the pictures on the review (japanese translation cleaned it up thanks =) ) i liked the brighter picture shown on the gladiator shot. I could just see more going on in the picture seems to reflect guitarmans comments on the image detail opening up a bit. Even the last shot (Titan AE?) while i like the sky better on the far left you can clearly see more detail of the characters from the h30). Is it just me or does the z2 seemed to be adding a grean hue to some of the shots?

I'll take guitarmans word that atoc looked stunning over the posting from PC anyday. Looking at the pictures on the review (japanese translation cleaned it up thanks =) ) i liked the brighter picture shown on the gladiator shot. I could just see more going on in the picture seems to reflect guitarmans comments on the image detail opening up a bit. Even the last shot (Titan AE?) while i like the sky better on the far left you can clearly see more detail of the characters from the h30). Is it just me or does the z2 seemed to be adding a grean hue to some of the shots?

yes i do take his word for it for guitarman to say A good test was the new Raiders of the lost Ark DVD. Which looked very dark and murky on the HT1000. Not so with the Optoma, it's luminance opens up all the dark movies. I'm seeing tons more stuff.
and i know for a fact he loves his ht1000 and for him to say the pic has better detail .wow that is saying something

when i pick up my pj and set it up and sit down to watch my first movie and lite up a monte cristo #2 cigar and enjoy.

Could you look at the lens closely for me? I'm wondering if a lens could be attached...there are several used 35mm anamorphic camera lenses out there for $200 or less, and with Zoomplayer and an HTPC it would be an easy way to increase resolution and maintain a constant height among aspect ratios.

there was still a little ambient light but the h10 worked very well to my surprise and the color was great very natural and very film like and also the h10 had a lot adjustments that can be done for the tweakers we put in the sound and vision cd and all that i can tell you is everything was pretty dead on color brightness and saturation was great and the great thing was it had not and i do mean no vb at all the the screen door was minimal to none i went right up to the screen and it just looked like little dots very impressive and to be honest this is one hell of a pj for the price it was making the decision very difficult but when it came down to the final choice i choose the optoma h30

the h30 he said is going to be the hot pj for the budget minded consumer and like tom said yes it is a form of a ht1000 clown but just for the budget minded person and the good news is the north american pj's will have the 800x600 full and i would like to thank tom for the great help here on this thread and i hope i could also be of some help here so tom can have sometime to enjoy his cigars but if i missed out something just let me know cheers every one here you guys are the best .

velvetpoet to be honest like i said it was a hard choice but i am a ht100 fan and i like the pj but to be honest it is still pretty pricey here in t.o and the colors are of coarse deeper it is all preference and i would have bean very happy with the h10 to.

Isn't the H10 just a loud Ae200? Or am I mistaken? If I remember correctly, it has same basic pannel resolution and contrast, but is much louder. I guess the lumens increase have to be paid for somehow...

The Epson is LCD and shouldn't be able to compete with the DLP's 2000.1 contrast with dark scened movies like The Two Towers. Which I watched today on the H30 and was unbelievable for this price range.

Again the detail in the blacks. The scene where Gandalf falls down the Cavern was fully open. I could see detail in rocks of the dark walls all the way to the bottom. The bottom area was also lit up from the start of the scene. My other projectors couldn't do this.